Join our next webinar of the series: Trade and Nature: Trade-offs and Solutions

Leveraging Trade Agreements to address biodiversity impacts caused by agricultural expansion  

When: Friday 8 July 2022, 12:00 - 13:00 BST

Register here: Webinar Registration - Zoom

Are you looking for the answers as to how trade agreements can play a role in mitigating the biodiversity impacts of agricultural expansion?

We are pleased to invite you to a new episode of the ‘Trade and Nature: Trade-offs and Solutions’ webinar series by the GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment Hub, which will answer this question. We especially encourage those in the environmental and conservation sectors with little or no prior knowledge of international trade flows and supply chains to join the discussion.

Topic: Leveraging Trade Agreements to address biodiversity impacts caused by agricultural expansion

Presenter: Colette van der Ven, Consultant for UNEP/ Founding Director, TULIP Consulting

This session will:

• Discuss the extent to which trade agreements can be leveraged as a mechanism to address deforestation, biodiversity loss – and other negative biodiversity impacts – generated by global demand in agricultural commodities.
• Provide recommendations on how to strengthen the link between trade agreements and mitigate negative biodiversity impacts caused by agricultural expansion through trade.

Join our webinar series 'Trade and Nature: Trade-offs and Solutions'  by the GCFR Trade, Development and the Environment Hub. The GCRF TRADE Hub (launched in 2019) has already produced several impactful publications and reports. Our researchers are exploring frontiers of transformative change within the trade-environment-development nexus, and there are novel insights and empirical evidence being developed within the Hub that merit sharing. 

PAST EVENTS:

• 17 March 2022 | 'WTO initiatives on environment & sustainable development: windows of opportunity for biodiversity'
• 23 November 2021 | 'Trade, Biodiversity and Climate Change' (Biodiversity and International Trade Policy Primer)
• 19 October 2021 | 'Science-based decision-making: Metrics and tools from the TRADE Hub'  (Commodity Footprints site).
• 20 September 2021 | 'Biodiversity and International Trade Policy: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges’
• 12 September 2019 | UKRI GCRF Trade, Development, and the Environment Hub: Geneva-based launch  

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